Family History Publications
LAUNCESTON TRANSCRIPTIONS
1800s research tools for Tasmanian family research.
Volume 1: GEORGE FULLER's
"RECOLLECTIONS OF LAUNCESTON 1836-1847" & related unpublished papers held by Mitchell Library,
Sydney. George Fuller was born in Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, in 1830, the son of a convict transported
to Sydney in 1810. His "Recollections of Launceston, 1836-1847, from memory" (compiled from March 1894) is
a hand-written unpublished work, held in the Original Manuscripts section of Mitchell Library, Sydney (115
pages in the original) comprising his notes on Old Launceston, giving a street-by-street description of the
town, its buildings and their occupants, together with his personal recollections and stories of the town
and its residents in the years 1836 to 1847 - including his version of the "Whale in the Cataract" story.
These notes also include a collection of his letters dated 1897, to Ernest Whitfeld of Launceston, as
well as other historical submissions on the Tamar area and history collected by Mr Whitfeld, as material
for public lectures he gave on Old Launceston in 1897. FULLY INDEXED
Volume 2: Ernest Whitfeld's
series of articles on "Early Launceston"
were published in the Launceston Examiner in 1897. Whitfeld's public lectures covered many aspect
of early life in Tasmania (VDL) from first settlement in 1803 up to 1897 – early settlement, the
aboriginals, bushrangers, growth of the town, local stories, cultural activities, currency and
tokens, VDL’s legal system and punishment, and the impact of national events, such as the 1840s
depression and the goldrushes. FULLY INDEXED
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